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In 464 BCE, a cataclysmic earthquake didn't just shatter the unwalled city of Sparta—it fractured the very foundations of its brutal society. This documentary explores the apocalyptic tremor that leveled the city, killing thousands of Spartiates and trapping the legendary warrior class beneath the rubble of their own homes, leaving them exposed and vulnerable.

But the true disaster for Sparta was just beginning. For the 20,000 Helots, the state-owned slaves who outnumbered their masters ten to one, this was not a tragedy but a divine signal for liberation. We detail the immediate, massive uprising known as the Third Messenian War, as tens of thousands of enraged Helots seized weapons and marched on their stunned, vulnerable masters, led by King Archidamus II.

Follow the story of the desperate five-year war that followed, culminating in the brutal siege of Mount Ithome. This conflict tested Sparta to its absolute limit, forcing the paranoid state to do the unthinkable: beg for help from their democratic rivals, Athens. We examine how Cimon's intervention and subsequent betrayal by the Spartans would plant the seeds for the devastating First Peloponnesian War.

Discover how this forgotten catastrophe and the brutal war that followed exposed the critical weakness at the heart of the Spartan state and reshaped the balance of power in ancient Greece forever.

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